hey John, I hope it doesn't piss you off to have a comment about something unrelated to the post but your blog is like my animation bible so maybe if you could answer this big question for me about conservatism (in a short, straight ahead John K way) I would love you forever and ever.

Mr. John K., do you know the japanese animator called "Masaaki Yuasa"? I think he does some pretty interesting things, totally different from the usual stuff japan produces nowadays.These are from his movie, Mind Game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBJibul630w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQaA4X2SYH0

and these are from his series called Kaiba, which you can consider his homage to Tezuka:

At the LA county fair they had chocolate covered bacon, my stomach wasnt sure what to think but I was tempted to try it.

I think your next character should be Willy Butthead, the venomous midget. He's not one of the well proportioned midgets either like mini me, he's got those little arms and a giant head. And when you make him mad venom shoots from a hidden sack in his throat. His special skill is changing history like in the book 1984. He rewrites history so people wont remember the truth of unpleasant things from the past. And he is really envious of talented people so he shoots his most powerful venom at them.